I'm afraid they get it from me...

The other night Hallie walked up to me and showed me some brown stuff on her hands. Oh great was my first reaction yours too I'm sure, but much to my relief she informed me it was from the granola bar she just ate. I wash her hands and then notice the brown stuff running out of her nose (my kids have had runny noses for over a month now). I'm like Hallie what is in your nose and as I'm wiping it and trying to have her blow it I am figuring it out. She stuck a chocolate chip up her nose. Why? She had no answer for me. But then I started thinking what is it with sticking foreign things up your nose. It's bad enough that our kids will pick their noses at the worst possible moments, but the things besides their little fingers that they put up there is amazing.


When Karlee was two, we were into beading (still are of course). The beading I am referring to is you put a bead on a peg board type thing and then iron them to all stick together (thanks to the Millers we have been doing this on a regular basis for about 5 years now). Karlee was quite young to be doing something that requires a steady hand, but she loved it. One night the kids were beading and Wynden and I were just sitting in the chairs and Karlee turns to me and says "I put a bead up my nose" Alrighty then, let's get it out. Well if you know Karlee you know then that all of her features are very petite and getting that bead out was next to impossible. We could see it and just almost get it out with tweezers, but that was it almost. We tried everything tweezers, a nose sucker bulb, blowing her nose, nothing worked. Madrona's after hours care couldn't get it out either. We had to go to a specialist the next day. After spraying a relaxing spray up her nose he pulled it right out. She got to pick out a bouncy ball for being so cooperative. I like to think that the ball cost me almost $300.00 because it was termed "surgery" for the visit. Yes we still have that ball.


Why would I think that they get this from me. Well my nickname for awhile when I was a kid was tape nose. I don't know if I am ready to share the story :), but let's just say scotch tape a little too far up my nose, some big tears, one huge blow, and tape ball across the room. My sisters never let me live this down. Every guy that I ever dated or thought of dated heard this story. I'm pretty sure that all their other bad habits and quirks come from Wynden though.

Free Day Again!

Free day at the Bellingham Children's Museum again from 12-5 today. Just thought you'd like to know.

Happy Tuesday to you!

We had a great three day weekend. Lexi has plenty to write about for her weekend news writing assignment I'm sure.

-Favorite thing we did this weekend: Bellingham Slam game yesterday (after Diesel and Karlee fell asleep of course)

-What I am compulsive about today: Wynden's caramel popcorn he made yesterday. 1/2 of the bowl down only 1/2 left, estimated completion time: 2 hours.

-What I'm still laughing about: Any Bachalorette fans out there? Last weeks episode where Shooter revealed a little too early why he is nicknamed that. No rose for you.

-What I'm still confused about: We went to Red Robin yesterday around 4:00 and there was no waiting list of course, but we had waited for about 20 minutes while the slowest host ever was supposedly setting up our table, during which Diesel fell off the arcade car and gave himself a black eye. I see her seating two couples that came in separately after us and all the while I am thinking what is taking so long we have a game to get to. So I walk up to her and say is there a reason this is taking so long and she's like well it is a shift change for us right now and my manager is doing a game plan for the night with all the night staff waiters and so I will seat you when that is over...Really did she think that I would be like ok well when you guys are ready I will just continue to occupy our nine kids here that are hungry (Darin and his family were with us). NO. I usually don't say a whole lot, but I couldn't let this go so I say well I guess you can tell your manager that our game plan is to leave if you don't get us seated right away, so we don't miss our game. Let's just say that we were sat right away :) The manager came over to make sure everything was ok he didn't really apologize and he didn't offer anything free so I don't think that he felt very bad about it. Oh well I love Red Robin so I will let it go ...eventually.

-What I am smiling about: Hallie's made you look game she just played on me about a spider.

-What I am confused about: How I made the font italicize by accidentally pushing the wrong key.

-What I am grateful for: soccer and fastpitch seasons are over. What this means is we won't be living at Bender Fields for a while anyway. We were there four days a week for the last two months. I am so proud of Lexi though. She has always been too shy to play and she played soccer and fastpitch overcoming her fears. (Of course I'm grateful for my kids too)

I hate being clumsy!

It always seems to come on strong at the worst possible moments.

Hold the BBQ Sauce Please!!!

A few weeks ago when Wynden's mom was here, we went to Red Robin for dinner. With Wynden's brother's kids along there are 9 children with not so many adults :) I think it is overwhelming for others dining there. Our waiter was great. He brought out fries before the meal for us to munch on and for some reason he brought some BBQ sauce for dipping. Anyway I didn't really think too much about the spot where he set it down because I was starving and so was everyone else so we all dug in. Moments later out of the corner of my eye I notice something peculiar about Diesel so I take a closer look and the little stinker did notice where the waiter had set the sauce, he had grabbed it, and was covered (so was I). Little did we know that this would not be our last situation with BBQ sauce.

A couple of nights ago we had just gotten all the kids to bed except Diesel. I usually hold him and give him a bottle, so he stays up a little later than the rest. While I was getting the bottle ready he was looking in the fridge and managed to grab a little McDonald's BBQ dipping sauce. I didn't think anything of it because I thought I would get it later after I laid him down. To be honest with you I wasn't sure where he put it. I gave him his bottle and he was pretty wide awake, so I set him down to play. Wynden and I were just watching Parks and Rec when all of a sudden Wynden says what is all over him and I look over and sure enough he had gotten into that sauce and what seems like a small container can sure go a long way. This late at night my emotions can go either way and this night I found it quite funny. BBQ sauce is not the easiest smell to get out of carpet or off your rock fireplace. Obviously Parks and Rec must have been pretty entertaining not to notice the little turkey making a mess. The Office on the other hand was quite a disappointment as far as season finales go.

You know it's a bad haircut when...

I got my hair done on Tuesday. I love getting it done, it is very relaxing. I take Lexi with and while I am under the dryer she gets her haircut. We've been doing this for a couple of years now. I remembered a good haircut story from a few years back.

When I was pregnant with Lexi, we went to Florida for a vacation. Wynden needed a haircut really bad so we went to a mall there hoping to find a cheap place. While he was getting his cut I looked at some magazines and found a shorter cut that I thought would look good. Rule #1 when you are pregnant it is not a very good idea to cut your hair short, for me anyway it makes my face look even fatter. Rule #2 never cut your hair at a place that does not speak very good English. I showed the picture to the lady and away she went. During the cut Wynden found out she was from Brazil. He served a mission there and is fluent in Portuguese, so they started talking Portuguese, having a good time communicating, and so what seemed like forever and a lot of cutting she was done. Well let's just say it was not like the picture... At all. I have naturally curly hair and without the proper cut it can be a little crazy.

Well I hated my hair, but what do you do right?! So we got home and I went back to work. A lot of people said "you got your haircut" it's cute certainly did not follow. I love it when someone points out either a haircut, a new shirt, or something, but that's it, no I like it or it looks good. That is an obvious that they don't like it right. Anyhow the first day back this is what one of my regulars said to me. First of all he was in line behind another car and as I was handing the first car their drink I looked back to see who was in line, so I could start on their drink (I had quite a few regulars memorized) and there he was his head sticking out his window and moving it side to side saying no and shaking his finger at me as well. He pulls up to the window and says "why would you cut your hair?" and then proceeds to say "if you were my wife you'd be sleeping on the couch" All I could do was laugh and thank him for his $.30 tip off of his $.70 coffee with cream and sugar.

Cheap Tickets to California

If you're interested in going to California, Allegiant is flying to Long Beach now and has a $10 each way special going today until midnight. We'll be going in October. It was nice of L to call, Wynden had already seen it, but didn't realize it was only until midnight. He was going to book it tomorrow, but will do it today. Thanks again L.